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I'm not buying your hypothesis

While your explanation makes excellent sense in the abstract it does not jive with my experience. I worked in high end audio retail for a major shop for a cumulative period of about seven (not all consecutive) years. We sold considerable numbers of fairly robust amps: big ARCs, Brystons, Levinsons, etc. The cooked tweeters we saw were very, very rarely connected to those amps and quite commonly from systems using receivers, integrated amps, or relatively inexpensive separate amps with comparatively lightweight power supplies. I can think of specific examples where the customer repeatedly fried tweeters and the problem went away when they moved up to a more powerful amp. I realize that this is anecdotal evidence and not a statistically meaningful data set, however, if you must have statistically solid data sets you might consider picking another field rather than high end audio. My trust in my ears and my experience has limits but in this case I'll go with them over your data.

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